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tragic English

Meaning tragic meaning

What does tragic mean?
Definitions in simple English

tragic

When an event is tragic, it is causing a lot of pain and suffering for those involved in that event. We would call such event a tragedy as well.

tragic

very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction a tragic face a tragic plight a tragic accident of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy tragic hero

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Topics tragic topics

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Simple sentences

With a little more care, the driver could have avoided such a tragic accident.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
The tragic news drove his mother mad.
The family mourned the tragic death of their young child.
The tragic mistake affected many people.
They both cried after hearing the tragic news.
After hearing the tragic news, he went outside to be alone.
I'm sure his chemistry teacher would have failed him had they survived the tragic explosion.
It talks about the tragic fate of slaves in the eighteenth century.
How tragic!
That's so tragic.
This is not so tragic.
This sad story had a tragic ending.
Tom is especially known for his tragic roles in motion pictures and at the theatre.
We are experiencing a difficult and tragic time in the history of our country.
The film relates the tragic fate of the slaves in the eighteenth century.
In my opinion, you can joke about anything. A lot of times people joke to make tragic events feel more tolerable.
Princess Diana's tragic death shocked the world.
The way his life was cut short is tragic.
What a tragic story!
That was a tragic plane crash.
This is really tragic.

Movie subtitles

Stella is so tragic.
No! It was a, uh, short and tragic illness.
Tragic business.
It appears to be a tragic accident, which is why I do wish you would change hobbies, I.
Since the tragic wedding the countess has been physically and emotionally broken. Half a year later. Since the tragic wedding the countess has been physically and emotionally broken.
Wouldn't that be tragic? Not to know that you could never be a putterer?
No, it's tragic to me.
The tragic difference is that you know when and we don't.
Look at them. All these poor tragic people.
But even in victory. we have cruel news to bear losses that are the more tragic because peace is so close at hand.
Yet, he died a tragic death.
Following the tragic demise of my father, Duke Eberhard Ludwig, the rule of this blessed land has passed into my hands.
Tragic.
What a tragic waste.
The president is saddened by this tragic event and demands a thorough investigation.
Wouldn't that be tragic?
Oh, you sound so tragic.
A tragic story.
You have seen a tragic example of how she ruins the sons of our most respectable citizens - spiritually, morally and financially.
I can go and explain that their little joke may have tragic consequences.
I don't even find this episode tragic.
All these poor tragic people.
Won't it be too tragic? Eating her food and knowing all about her husband.
Your policy is worse than a crime. It's a tragic blunder.
That poor sap. That card trick. - Tragic.
My dear, the situation is completely tragic.
It was a, uh, short and tragic illness.
In presenting this film today, it may not seem to have the same tragic effect as it had at the time.
To victory and defeat and stupid tragic sorrow.
It's nothing tragic.
A brunette, broad forehead, heavy eyebrows. beautiful eyes, turned-up nose. an almost tragic face when she was serious. but childlike as soon as she smiled.
It was a tragic, terrible experience.
Nothing tragic.
It's just a tragic accident.
Well, it's not that tragic.
The young man disappears under tragic circumstances, and his poem comes back to us through Orpheus, who was in the car and who claims he doesn't know what became of Cegeste.

News and current affairs

So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters - earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis - that adding a man-made disaster is all the more tragic.
But if we have learned anything at all from the tragic assassinations of the region's greatest peacemakers, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, it is that the guns do not remain silent for long.
Whereas America's war in Indochina was a tragic mistake, the cost of a wider war precipitated by the crisis in Iraq would be incomparably greater - for both the patient and the doctor.
Yet the immediate consequences of Djindjic's death will be tragic.
There is something tragic about Europe's current development.
The blood of WWII's victims calls for justice and fairness, but most of all it demands honesty about who and what caused their tragic fate.
The compact builds on the 2001 Bonn Agreement, which laid the framework for a democratic Afghanistan but left much to be done to overcome that war-torn country's tragic legacy.
Indeed, he recently called the disintegration of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake.
The tragic result is that some of the world's poorest countries cannot export their agricultural goods, one of the few areas where they might realistically compete with the likes of China and India.
Notwithstanding today's tragic and terrifying headlines, we may be entering a new golden age of human history.
As a result, many women with a high level of mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes face the tragic choice of having their breasts and ovaries surgically removed to pre-empt cancer.
The rich may feel that clever words will absolve them of responsibility, but the hungry and dying stand witness to the tragic realities.
Tragic as this was for Thomas Duncan, the only one of these patients who has died, if all of the more than 13,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths had occurred in Africa, Ebola would never have aroused nearly as much attention in rich countries.
Unfortunately, the Middle East, beyond suffering its own tragic fate, has also revealed the extent of Europe's weakness.
It would therefore be tragic if the EU missed the opportunity to tie Kazakhstan firmly to the West.
It would be tragic if, during the G8 summit scheduled for St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2006, the Chechen issue were pushed to the side.
Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.
During 1998, Brazil's economy began a tragic, predictable descent into recession.
What is most tragic is that when leaders meet in Copenhagen this December, they will embrace more of the same solution: promises of even more drastic emission reductions that, once again, are unlikely to be fulfilled.

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